September’s featured author is…
Rumer Godden. I like her kid books better than her adult books although I like some of those, too.
If you have children, you should check out Miss Happiness and Miss Flower especially if you have a child who likes small things. There’s a part where the children decide to celebrate the traditional Japanese doll festival for Miss Happiness and Miss Flower so they create these teensy-tiny things for the festival. My sister always loved small things (when we were children, she once used a razor blade to create a miniature paper doll set for my Ginny doll) and so she adored the description of the children cutting up white thread to make bowls of rice and soaking chalk to make green water for soup.
Another one is Impunity Jane, one of the few books I’ve ever found about a boy and his doll. I believe that it’s out of print but you can find some used if you go searching.
THANK YOU for bringing Miss Happiness and Miss Flower back into my life!! I had forgotten that book until you mentioned it, and then the whole story came flooding back in an instant. I LOVED that book. I read so many books as a girl (must’ve been in the hundreds, maybe thousands) that I can’t remember them all, but when someone mentions one, I remember it instantly. For instance, Miss Hickory…Hm, maybe I’ll start reading that one to Josie today…
I love Impunity Jane! I am fortunate enough to own a copy and look forward to reading it to my son!